Pomegranate chicken with almond couscous
Jazz up chicken breasts in this fruity, sweetly spiced sauce with pomegranate seeds, toasted almonds and tagine paste
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp vegetable Oil
- 1 cup Couscous
- 1 Chicken Stock cube
- 3 cups Large red onion – halved and thinly slices
- 3 cups chicken mini fillets
- 4 tbsp tagine spice paste or 2 tbsp harissa
- 1 cup bottle of pomegranate juice (not sweetened, use Pom Wonderful)
- ½ cup pack pomegranate seeds
- ½ cup pack toasted flaked almond
- Small pack mint chopped
Method:
Step 1:
Boil the kettle and heat the oil in a large frying pan. Put the couscous in a bowl with some seasoning and crumble in half of the stock cube. Add the onion to the pan and fry for a few minutes to soften. Pour boiling water over the couscous to just cover, then cover the bowl with a tea towel and set aside.
Step 2:
Push the onion to one side of the pan, add the chicken fillets and brown on all sides. Stir in the tagine paste or harissa and the pomegranate juice, then crumble in the rest of the stock cube and season well. Simmer, uncovered for 10 minutes until the sauce has thickened, and the chicken is cooked through. Stir through the pomegranate seeds, saving a few to scatter over before serving.
Step 3:
After 5 minutes fluff up the couscous with a fork and stir through the almonds and mint. Serve the chicken on the couscous and the sauce spooned over.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/pomegranate-chicken-almond-couscous